Asian Fast Food Chain Itsu Does COVID-driven Pivot To Self-Service Order Screens And Meal Status Displays August 24, 2021 by Super User The pandemic has forced a lot of fast food and fast casual restaurant operators to rethink how they operated – from adding drive-thru capability to reducing the amount of staff-to-customer interactions. What the Asian-inspired Itsu chain is doing in the UK is a good, though certainly not unique, example of how those kinds of restaurants …
Samsung Remotely Disabling Connected Smart TVs Stolen By South African Looters August 24, 2021 by Super User Samsung has announced an interesting way to deal with looting and theft of smart TVs and, I assume, smart commercial displays – remotely disabling them and rendering the screens useless. The electronics giant announced recently that it would use a designed-in “block function” on smart screens to neuter stolen TVs in South Africa when they …
Korean University Uses LED-embedded Building Glass With Near 99%+ Transparency August 20, 2021 by Super User This is a video of architectural glass with embedded RGB LEDs that still offer 99%+ transparency – in this case at a university building in South Korea. There may well be engineering, supply and cost reasons why architects and building engineers say this sort of thing is not feasible, but it certainly seems there is …
Intel Winding Down Its RealSense Computer Vision Business: Report August 19, 2021 by Super User Via CRN The long-running IT publication CRN is reporting that Intel is “winding down” its RealSense computer vision business, meaning its depth sensor cameras are going away just as Microsoft ended production and support for its Kinect sensor cameras. Reports CRN: We are winding down our RealSense business and transitioning our computer vision talent, technology and products …
Philips Pro Displays Can Now Be Managed, Monitored From Crestron Controller Screens August 19, 2021 by Super User PPDS, the company that markets Philips commercial display solutions, has done an interesting tie-up with AV automation and integration giant Crestron that makes networked screens easily monitored and managed from Crestron’s XiO Cloud solution. The XiO Cloud platform makes it possible to remotely control a screen’s functions from a touchscreen Crestron AV systems controller – …
LG Now Marketing Full Digital Signage Solution, Inc. Software, For QSR Vertical August 18, 2021 by Super User If you are active on the software side of digital signage, you’ve undoubtedly seen Samsung evolving its MagicINFO software from a low or no-cost add-on for small jobs to a full-featured enterprise platform that competes against pure-play CMS software companies. LG has also had a product called SuperSign in the market for more than a …
Large Format LED Display Sales Returning To Pre-Pandemic Levels: Omdia Research August 16, 2021 by Super User The latest data from research firm Omdia’s LED Video Displays Market Tracker suggests the video wall market is coming back to pre-pandemic sales levels, and the biggest market demand is for fine pitch product. The recovery of the fine pixel pitch (FPP) category, which includes <=1.99mm, is noticeably faster than other wider pixel pitch categories …
Panasonic Gets Serious About Digital Signage in U.S., Canada; Debuts “Complete Solution” August 11, 2021 by Super User Panasonic has not been an overly visible player in the North American digital signage ecosystem for many years, but the Japanese visual systems and electronics manufacturer is taking a focused run at the business with what it is calling a Complete Digital Signage Solution. The company has announced what could be called a turnkey solution …
LG Using AI-driven Voice Assistants In Mobile Service Provider Stores In Korea August 6, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip Craig Keefner at kioskindustry.org for flagging this … LG’s mobile retail wing is starting to use voice recognition technology from an Israeli startup to act as digital assistant at its mobile phone service provider stores in South Korea. Kardome announced it will install its voice activation technology in 2,000 LG Uplus store kiosks …
PORTL’s Transparent Displays Being Used By University’s Health Educators To Demonstrate Disorders August 3, 2021 by Super User Much of the attention around the use of transparent displays to show people at life-size dimension, in remote locations, has been focused on sectors like events and entertainment, but a Florida university has identified a very different use-case: healthcare education. The University of Central Florida is using LA-based PORTL’s tricked-out transparent flat panels to show …
